UFOMYST
CaseOther2005

Sonora, CA, USA

strange large colorful object for 3hrs+ by the moon

Report quality: Moderate48/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (51 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-08-11
Where
Sonora, CA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
3 hrs
Geo
37.984, -120.382 · exact
Slug
other-over-sonora-ca-2005-942dec
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 30 documented reports from Sonora, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 539 sightings in 2005.
  • Other sightings ran at 7.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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